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Fiona Apple: When The Pawn... (Clean Slate/Epic)

Eric Weisbard, Spin, December 1999

FIONA APPLE presents herself as damaged goods, both a woman wronged and a gleeful wrongdoer. That alone sets her above the teen-pop Mouseketeers; makes her vaguely human.

Total word count of piece: 400

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